Syncing kolab with mobile device

[vincent at acheson.uk.com]

I use Nokia 9300 with Outlook / Toltec and can vouch for it.

Works fine for calendar / contacts, but not for tasks (aka todos)

Hope this 
a. helps and
b. isn't too far OT....

Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org
> [mailto:kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org]On Behalf Of Bernhard Reiter
> Sent: 26 September 2006 21:35
> To: kolab-users at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: Syncing kolab with mobile device
> 
> 
> Hi Nils,
> 
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 17:34, Nils wrote:
> > I just found an old and very unfinished entry in the kolab 
> wiki about
> > syncing mobile devices with kolab,
> 
> wiki.kolab.org is a community effort, we appreciate all help 
> to improve it 
> to everyones benefit.
> 
> > therefore I ask here: 
> >
> > Palm
> >
> > I was able to sync a palm with kpilot and the local 
> calendar of kmail.
> > So far I have not been able to sync the Palm with more then one
> > resource. What I would like to accomplish is the following thing:
> >
> > Sync the private Entries on the Plam with the local cal file of
> > kontact and add entries from a shard folder from kolab to the palm.
> 
> In modern KDE Kolab Clients (we recommend the proko2 branch),
> syncing with mobile palm devices via KPilot should work 
> reasonably well.
> I do not recommend using a local resource, it is better to 
> have a backup 
> of your objects on the Kolab Server.
> 
> > Nokia Communicator 9300
> >
> > Bluetooth communication with my laptop worked out of the 
> box, however
> > I failed sync it with kolab. I get errors like this in my log on the
> > phone:
> >
> > "Unable to find the specified object:
> > Calendar ('C:\blah blah')"
> >
> > which does not work of course.
> >
> > Today many people have phones and pdas that have a built in calendar
> > and support usb or bluetooth, so I think compatibility with mobile
> > devices is quite important for kolab..
> 
> Yes it is.
> For Outlook Kolab Clients, I saw reports for both connectors
> that syncing with mobile devices works.
> For KDE we build on the efforts of the KDE project.
> We appreciate any help (non-technical, coding or financial) to enhance
> Kolab funcationality.
> 
> Bernhard
> 
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